Prince Harry was in touch with his father, Prince Charles and his older brother, Prince William, for the first time since his and Meghan’s innovative interview with Oprah Winfrey Earlier this month, CBS This Morning co-host Gayle King said Tuesday.
These conversations were not productive, King’s couple said over the weekend.
However, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex said they were happy to start a dialogue with the royal family and want the family to heal.
King said the family had not yet contacted Meghan after the two-hour interview.
Harry had told Winfrey that he had a difficult relationship with his father following his and Meghan’s decision. come back from their roles as members of the royal staff in early 2020.
“When I was in Canada, I had three conversations with my grandmother and two conversations with my father,” he said, adding “before he stopped receiving my calls.”
While the duke said he had since resumed talking to his father, he was “disappointed” by him, given Charles’ past experience with Harry’s late mother, Princess Diana, and her relationship with the UK tabloids.
The prince was “upset” and “cut off” to hear what his younger son had to say and ignored a reporter’s question about it the day after the interview in the UK.
As for Prince William, who is second on the throne, Harry has classified their current relationship as “space.”
Through the interview, Meghan also disputed an earlier claim that William’s wife, Kate, made Meghan cry a few days before her wedding – claiming that the reality was reversed.
She and Harry also compared Meghan’s harsh treatment by British tabloids to Kate’s, saying that racism played a role in covering the Duchess of Sussex. They accused the palace of not defending it as it had the Duchess of Cambridge.
Prince William he told reporters the kings were not “very much a racist family” after the interview. Buckingham Palace issued a statement calling the couple’s allegations, especially racial, “concerning”.
“I think what’s still bothering them is that the palace keeps saying they want to solve the problem privately, but there are still false stories that are still contemptuous of Meghan,” King said.
Shortly before the interview, it was revealed that Buckingham Palace is also considering allegations of intimidation against Meghan by royal aides. The palace hired an outside law firm to examine the claims.
King said the couple “will not be alone in that investigation.”
However, co-host “CBS This Morning” said Harry and Meghan are hoping for a less controversial relationship with the prince’s relatives.
“They both want to move forward with this and they both want healing in this family,” King said.